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Writing a Personal Essay
CH.4
Personal Essay
Places the writer at center stage Photographic self-portrait Written with openness & honesty Written in the first-person as a narrative Subject is often commonplace Thesis can be implied or stated at any point in
the narrative Relies on memory & observation and often
shifts back and forth to then & now
Writing a Personal Essay
Think about subject Generate ideas: lists, fast writing, visual
mapping or clustering Questions for reflection? Evaluate your own sketch Researching, gathering more info.,
drafting, & revising
Features of a Personal Essay
First person Subject commonplace Narrative form Sources of information: memory and
observation Reflective of dialectical process
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